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Several California cities have passed legislation to repeal parking mandates beyond the scope of AB 2097 and its amendments, both before and after AB 2097's passage: San Francisco repealed parking mandates citywide (except for mortuaries) on December 18, 2018. [11] Emeryville repealed parking mandates and instituted parking maximums in 2019. [12]
Parking mandates or parking requirements are policy decisions, usually taken by municipal governments, which require new developments to provide a particular number of parking spaces. Parking minimums were first enacted in 1950s America during the post-war construction boom with the intention of preventing street parking from becoming overcrowded.
California became the second state after Oregon to eliminate parking minimums near public transit. Other laws passed before and after AB 2097, including the HOME Act, SB 4, and SB 6, also prohibited parking mandates within a half-mile of public transit for eligible projects.
In an effort to lower the cost of construction and cut down on car dependence, California has recently adopted a law that prohibits local governments from setting minimum parking requirements for ...
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Such efforts has been taken in different cities in California [64] and in September 2023 the state abolished the requirement of minimum parking space "within a half-mile of major public transit stops". [65] From 2017 more than 200 towns and cities in the USA abolished or changed the requirement for parking minimum. [66]
The Victoria Transport Policy Institute, a Canadian think tank, calculated in 2014 that surface parking spaces in California cost an average of $20,000 to build, with garages costing several times ...